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Title: Leon Bone collecting fingerprints after bank robbery, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 2, 1936
1936-03-02
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Hollywood Bank Robbed,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar 1936: 3.
Three men, armed with machine guns, robbed the Bank of America on Melrose and Bronson shortly before it closed on March 2nd. No one was physically injured and the bandits escaped with $6,100.
Leon Bone, fingerprint analyst, at Bank of America after a robbery. Spectators can be seen peering through the windows in the background.
Handwritten on negative: Bank Robbery - Melrose and Bronson 3/2/36
Text from negative sleeve: 3484-- Leon Bone Bank (Melrose and Bronson) Fingerprint man Bank Robbery - Melrose and Bronson 3/2/36 [stamped:] MAR 4 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12457
ark:/21198/zz002hmg7r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Bank robberies--California--Los Angeles
Bone, Leon
Bank of America
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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